Archive for the 'Patterns'

• William Lind on the Taliban’s Operational Art

June 29th, 2012 by zen

Posted in 4GW, Afghanistan, analytic, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, culture, Failed State, Foreign Internal Defense, foreign policy, insurgency, intellectuals, ISAF, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, military, Patterns, security, state building, state failure, strategy, Tactics, Taliban, theory, tribes, war | 13 comments

• One bead for a rosary

June 22nd, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in attention, Charles Cameron, complex systems, connectivity, conservativism, consilience, creativity, cultural intelligence, Design, earth, ecosystem, emotion, framing, freeplay, futurism, games, geopolitics, graphical thinking, hard problem in consciousness, insight, koan, metacognition, nuance / subtlety, pattern language, Patterns, peace, Perception, personal, philosophy, photography, physics, primary loyalties, Religion, resilience, rethinking thinking, sacrament, scenario, seed, soft power, symbolism, synthesis, terrain, thoughts illustrated, Uncategorized, wicked problems | Comments Off on One bead for a rosary

• The crackling energy of a Sembl move

June 10th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in analogy, Charles Cameron, connectivity, counterpoint, creativity, games, Hipbone Games, ideas, iPad, metacognition, Patterns, rethinking thinking, Sembl, synthesis, Uncategorized | 5 comments

• Play as if your life depends on it

June 10th, 2012 by Charles Cameron

Posted in analogy, book, Charles Cameron, connectivity, counterpoint, creativity, fiction, games, Hipbone Games, ideas, iPad, metacognition, Patterns, rethinking thinking, science fiction, Sembl, synthesis, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Play as if your life depends on it

• When Does Conflict Become “War”?

May 22nd, 2012 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, ancient history, anthropology, classics, Clausewitzian, cognition, complex systems, culture, economics, Epistemology, Evolution, framing, genocide, geopolitics, government, history, ideas, literature, logic, military, military history, Musings, non-state actors, Oligarchy, Patterns, peace, Perception, philosophy, primary loyalties, Questions, risk, security, social science, society, sociobiology, state building, strategy, Strategy and War, synthesis, Tactics, theory, tribes, Uncategorized, uncertainty, war, warriors | 10 comments